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US-8030860

Working vehicle

PublishedOctober 4, 2011
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Technical Abstract

A power shovel vehicle including a hydraulic pump that outputs hydraulic oil for operating a hydraulic actuator, an electric motor for driving the hydraulic pump, a main battery for supplying direct current electric power, an inverter for converting the direct current electric power into alternating current electric power and operating the electric motor, a second relay for making and breaking the connection between the main battery and the inverter, an operating device for operating the hydraulic actuator, a controller for controlling operation of the hydraulic actuator and inverter, and turning on and off the second relay, a first relay for making and breaking the connection between the main battery and the controller, a power source monitoring controller for monitoring conditions of the main battery and turning on and off the first relay, a hydraulic sensor for detecting the discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump, and an electric current sensor for measuring a load current flowing into the inverter.

Patent Claims
3 claims

Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.

1

1. A working vehicle operated by a hydraulic actuator, comprising: a hydraulic pump that outputs hydraulic oil for operating the hydraulic actuator; an electric motor that drives the hydraulic pump; a main battery that supplies direct current electric power; an inverter that operates the electric motor by converting the direct current electric power from the main battery into alternating current electric power and supplying the alternating current electric power to the electric motor; an electric motor relay that makes and breaks the connection between the main battery and the inverter; an operating device for operating the hydraulic actuator; a controller which is operated by the direct current electric power from the main battery, and which controls the operation of the hydraulic actuator and the inverter in accordance with operation signals output from the operation device, and makes and breaks the connection between the main battery and the inverter in use of the electric motor relay; a controller relay that makes and breaks the connection between the main battery and the controller; a power source monitoring controller that monitors the state of the main battery, and that makes and breaks the connection between the main battery and the controller in use of the controller relay; an oil pressure sensor for measuring the output oil pressure of the hydraulic oil output from the hydraulic pump; and a current sensor for measuring the value of the load current flowing from the main battery to the inverter wherein configuration is employed to execute: a first step in which the controller, when determination is made that there has been no variation in the magnitude of the output oil pressure measured by the oil pressure sensor and the load current measured by the current sensor within a set period of time, breaks the connection between the main battery and the inverter and stops the motor in use of the electric motor relay; a second step in which the controller, when determination is made that the state where no operating signal has been output from the operating device has continued during a predetermined set period of time, transmits a command signal to the electrical power monitoring controller; and a third step in which the power source monitoring controller, when the transmitted signal is received, breaks the connection between the main battery and the controller in use of the controller relay, and stops the controller.

2

2. The working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the controller has a motor start up switch, and in the second step, the controller, when determination is made that the motor start up switch has been operated, connects the main battery and the inverter in use of the electric motor relay, and starts the electric motor in order to return to the first step.

3

3. The working vehicle according to claim 1 or claim 2 , wherein the power source monitoring controller has a power supply switch, and in the third step, after stopping the controller, the power source monitoring controller, when determination is made that the power supply switch has been operated, connects the main battery to the controller and the inverter using the controller relay and the electric motor relay in that order.

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Filing Date

May 24, 2007

Publication Date

October 4, 2011

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